Quote Originally Posted by Croesy Blue View Post
That does make sense. But surely if the government had acted a month earlier we may not have needed such tight restrictions?

It isn't just a british problem, a lot of european countries also didn't think it was that much of an issue until people started dying.
I suspect that's more due to the information coming through. WHO back in Jan believed couldn't be transmitted person to person and had a phone call with Lady Gaga...

Germany have had a large rise in deaths. Someone speculated that their testing may well have focused on the young rather than general population.